Alex serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He is a leading expert on IT planning and strategy, governance, enterprise architecture value, and enterprise architecture practices. Alex leads the team responsible for research and advisory services that address the needs, priorities, and concerns of Enterprise Architecture Professionals and IT strategists.

Previous Work Experience

Alex has been a principal analyst with Forrester, providing clients with insights in the areas of IT strategy and planning, architecture, and process improvement. Prior to joining Forrester, Alex was the director of enterprise architecture and IT process improvement with John Hancock Financial Services. His experience prior to John Hancock includes IT management consultancy, working with Fortune 500 companies on technology strategy and planning and with various high-tech firms in product management and strategy. Alex has published many articles and has spoken at conferences on technology strategy, IT planning, and architecture.

Education

Alex holds a B.A. in fine arts from the University of New Hampshire. He has also participated in and lectured at various executive training programs.

For CIO Professionals

Forrester's 2008 business technology (BT) survey of 600 business executives reinforces what many IT executives may sense: While technology is very important to firms, IT is not expected to meet, nor...

For CIO Professionals

Program management offices (PMOs) are too frequently viewed as IT management overhead, especially when they focus on portfolio governance and oversight, rather than management of individual projects....

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Given the current economic turbulence, the CIO and his or her staff must work with their business counterparts to revisit and revise their portfolio of projects. Necessity may dictate tough decisions...

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For CIO Professionals

In firms that recognize the degree of interdependence between business change and IT implications (what Forrester calls "business technology" or BT), new organizational structures are established to...

For CIO Professionals

Many IT organizations struggle with planning the integration after M&A -- they are not brought into M&A discussions as soon as they would like, and the discussions are tactical around the current M&A...

For CIO Professionals

2008 will see the firming up of several trends that will shape the CIO role in the future, the foremost being the bifurcation of the role itself. Some CIOs will capitalize on their visibility across...